Robert Gilmore Pontius

Clark University, School of Geography

950 Main Street, Worcester MA 01610-1477, United States of America

OFFICE PHONE 001 508 793 7761   EMAIL rpontius@clarku.edu

Title: "What will inspire us to switch from unhelpful metrics to enlightening metrics?"

 Our profession has habits of using particular metrics even when the metrics do not address our research questions. Professors pass these habits to students who perpetuate the dysfunctional culture. These routinely-abused popular metrics include: kappa, area under the ROC curve, F1, root mean squared error, Nash-Sutcliffe Index, overall agreement, and p-value. Some authors seem to think that they must claim that their results have high agreement, but the opportunity to advance the profession is to acknowledge error. This presentation gives examples of dysfunctional practices and recommends straightforward fixes. The mathematical solutions are clear, but the adoption of the solutions is slow because of sociological problems among scientists in the profession.

Prof. Robert Gilmore Pontius Jr is a Professor in the Graduate School of Geography at Clark University in the United States. He specializes in Land Change Science, Geographical Information Science, and Statistics. The United States National Science Foundation has funded his research through the Long Term Ecological Research network. His newest research collaboration with MapBiomas is creating methods and software to analyze land change within a time series of land cover maps. Gil derives mathematical methods, some of which are in Clark University’s TerrSet software, which has more than one hundred thousand users worldwide. He has published more than ninety journal articles. His most popular article is entitled “Death to Kappa”, which is controversial because scientists routinely use the Kappa index of agreement even when Kappa is misleading. He is a co-author of the book “Advancing Land Change Modeling” and has recently published a solo-authored book entitled “Metrics That Make a Difference: How to Analyze Change and Error”. Pontius will describe several of the book’s ideas in a workshop at this conference.

Prof. Dr. Sisi Zlatanova

Faculty of Built Environment,

The University of New South Wales ((UNSW),
Sydney, NWS, Australia,

Email: s.zlatanova@unsw.edu.a

Title: "3D modelling and navigation: the importance of standardised approaches"

 The interest in 3D indoor environments is steadily growing. As the contemporary public buildings are getting increasingly sophisticated, indoor applications demand up-to-date, suitable 3D digital models to support human activities related to shopping, working, entertainment, sport, and health. Indoor navigation has been investigated for decades but mostly in 2D and many approaches have been developed to provide the most appropriate route with respect to locomotion mode, physical characteristics, dynamic changes of the environment and tasks to be performed. Still the research on 3D modelling and navigation is scattered and application depended.

 Increased number of BIM and 3GIS indoor models are becoming avaioble but, they are still not readily applicable to support indoor navigation. While it is acknowledged that each public building (airport, museum, shopping centre, hospital, university) may employ an individual approach to providing indoor services, the need for standardised 3D frameworks for indoor navigation is apparent. Having agreements on indoor semantics, geometric representations, and networks would ensure the automatic extraction of navigation models, will greatly facilitate the exchange of indoor information and booster the development of range of applications.

This talk will present recent investigations and experiments towards unified 3D models for navigation and guidance. Unified concepts and vocabularies of importance to indoor modelling will be addressed. Generic frameworks, such as Poincare Duality, which have been used as foundation of the OGC standard IndoorGML will be discussed. Several examples will illustrate how these concepts can be extended to outdoor to provide seamless indoor-outdoor navigation.  The talks will conclude on resent ISO and OGC activities towards scandalisation of 3D indoor models.

 Prof. Sisi Zlatanova is a SHARP Professor at the University of New South Wales, Faculty of Arts, Design and Architecture and Head of the Geospatial Research, Innovation and Development (GRID) lab. She has obtained her PhD at Graz University of Technology, Austria and spent 17 years of her research carrier at Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands. Her research interests are in 3D modelling of the Built environment with focus on integration of BIM and GIS, 3D Indoor modelling, 3D representations, 3D data management and visualisation. She is actively involved in the activities of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) and several Working Groups of ISO. She is leading the developments of the OGC standard IndoorGML. She is the President of Technical Commission IV ‘Spatial Information Science’ of the International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS) for the period 2016-2022. She is author and co-author of more than 500 scientific publications and 22 books. With a team of excellent researchers, she is collaborating with industry and academia towards maturing the concepts of spatially enabled Digital Twins.

 Prof. Dr.-Ing. Ingo Neumann

 Geodetic Institute Hanover - Leibniz University of Hanover,

 Nienburger Straße 1, D-30167 Hanover, GERMANY

 phone: +49 511 762 2462

 fax: +49 511 762 2468

 email: neumann@gih.uni-hannover.de

 www: www.gih.uni-hannover.de

Title: "Quality assured small- and large-scale monitoring with low-cost data"

Within the talk, several aspects of low-cost or cost-effective monitoring are shown. These projects deal on the one hand with local infrastructure (e.g. bridges) and on the other hand with large-scale examples, e.g. with ground subsidence for areas of hundreds of km.

The first half of the talk is related to short-term structural health monitoring (SHM) of bridge infrastructures. Therefore, e.g., the global dynamic behaviour of a structure, such as natural frequencies (i.e. eigenfrequencies), mode shapes (i.e. eigenforms) and modal damping, which are known as modal parameters, needs to be analysed. This research work aims to propose a robust and automatic vibration analysis procedure that is so-called robust time domain modal parameter identification (RT-MPI) technique. It is novel in the sense of automatic and reliable identification of initial eigenfrequencies even closely spaced ones as well as robust estimates of the modal parameters – identified by low-cost sensor measurements.

Quality ensured subsidence monitoring by free InSAR data is addressed in the second half of the talk. Such investigations allow observing geogenic and anthropogenic deformation processes, which could have significant effects on the infrastructure and the environment in a large-scale manner. To delimitate the areas influenced by ground movement, persistent scatter interferometry (PSI) is increasingly used due to its relatively high temporal and spatial resolution. The hold process chain for data analysis and large-scale velocity modelling is presented. For testing, the procedure was applied on PSI-data sets of the Sentinel-1 mission in Germany and validated with independent terrestrial data, respectively. The resulting models of movement in the vertical and horizontal direction provide a substantial increase in information for detecting and evaluating areas of ground movement.

Prof. Ingo Neumann received his Dipl.-Ing. and Ph.D. in Geodesy and Geoinformatics at the Leibniz Universität Hannover in 2005 and 2009, respectively. From 2009 to 2012 he was head of the Geodetic Laboratory at the University FAF Munich. Since 2012 he is Full Professor in the field of Engineering Geodesy and Geodetic Data Analysis at the Geodetic Institute of the Leibniz Universität Hannover. From 2014 on, he is also head of the Geodetic Institute.

His research areas are: adjustment theory and error models, multi-sensor systems, quality assessment, geodetic monitoring, terrestrial laser scanning, deep learning and automation of measurement processes. He is active in national and international scientific associations and member of the German and International Organization of Standardization (DIN and ISO).

Prof. Dr. Markus Gerke

Title: "Potential and Challenges of Shotcrete 3D Printing (SC3DP) Within the Building Construction Process "

Even though digitalization is gaining a substantial foothold in the construction industry (3D Modeling, BIM etc) there is still an interruption between the planning stages and the actual construction process. Fully integrated design-to-production workflows that have been developed in other industries have not yet been fully adopted by the construction industry. First attempts are lacking the flexibility to meet user demand, as they are heavily relying on standardized building components. Additive Manufacturing on the other hand allows for high geometric freedom and the fabrication of non-standard building components. This new-found flexibility results from the fact that no formwork is required with AM and thus each part can be different at no additional cost. One drawback however is, that the geometric freedom comes at the price of geometric precision, requiring methods to counteract deviations and ensure building component quality. In this talk a concept for an “Intelligent Production System” is presented that is based on a bi-directional digital workflow, integrating sensors and methods for quality inspection and control. A case study, using the Shotcrete 3D Printing method illustrates the concept and unveils potentials and challenges of this approach.
Our work is embedded into a large German collaborative research project, “Additive Manufacturing in Construction (AMC)”, https://www.tu-braunschweig.de/trr277, funded by the German Science Foundation DFG. In this major research programme, different aspects of AMC are being investigated and new methods developed.

Prof. Markus Gerke is heading the Institute of Geodesy and Photogrammetry of the Technical University Braunschweig since 2017. Currently, he is also dean of studies for civil and environmental engineering at TU Braunschweig. His background is in Geodesy. After he graduated from Leibniz University in Hannover in 2000, he worked on this PhD thesis under the supervision of Christian Heipke, Leibniz University Hannover. He finished the Phd in 2006. In 2007 he joined the ITC (today: University of Twente), in Enschede, The Netherlands as Assistant Professor for image sequence analysis. He worked there in the group of Prof. George Vosselman. His focus is on geometrical and semantic aspects of image analysis in scales from material inspection to building and city level.

Prof. Dr. John Trinder

School of Civil and Environmental Engineering

The University of NSW UNSW SYDNEY 2052 AUSTRALIA

 Title:"Remote Sensing for Ecosystem Services and Urban Sustainability"

 Prof. John Trinder was employed at the University of NSW, Australia, from 1965-1999, progressing to Professor and Head of the School from 1990-1999. He currently holds the position of Emeritus Professor in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of NSW. He was elected Honorary Fellow of UNSW in 2013. He was President (2000-2004) of the International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS) and is currently an Honorary Member. John has undertaken teaching and research at UNSW for more than 55 years, specializing in Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing, and spatial information. He maintains an interest in these areas, and their contributions to studying environmental impacts

 Prof. Dr.  Nico Van de Weghe

Title: "COVID-19 from a GIScientific perspective"

In researching and combating COVID-19, virologists, epidemiologists and biostatisticians logically occupy a strong position. Analysis of the spread of a virus is pre-eminently a spatiotemporal issue, which GIScientists deal with on a daily basis. It is therefore also interesting to study this from a GIScientific point of view. In our CartoGIS research group, we have many years of experience in spatiotemporal research, linked, among other things, to Location-Based Services, Geographic Information Systems, Geovisualisation and Data Mining. These methods are used extensively in the investigation and control of the Coronavirus. This presentation will give a quick overview of several methods that we used and will go deeper into a spatiotemporal data mining method that has been used effectively.

Prof. Nico Van de Weghe is a professor at the CartoGIS Research Group (Department of Geography, Faculty of Sciences) of Ghent University (Belgium). He is specialised in geographic information science (focus on analysis and modelling of spatiotemporal information, ranging from mobility research to sports analytics), and has a broad experience in setting up practical experiments in the field of geographic information technology (focus on tracking moving objects and location-based services).

 Prof. Dr. Wenzhong (John) Shi

Chair Professor and Director of Otto Poon Charitable Foundation Smart Cities Research Institute,

The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Title: "Supporting Anti-epidemic Measures based on Spatial Prediction of COVID-19 Onset Risk"

Predicting the risk of COVID-19 is the key to getting prepared to the coming disease situation and preallocation of resources to combat COVID-19. By making the prediction on the scenarios of different anti-epidemic measures being implemented, more effective measures can also be identified to better protect people’s life, health, and economic activities. We have developed a series of extended Weighted Kernel Density Estimation (E-WKDE) models to predict the spatiotemporal risk of COVID-19 symptom onset. Making use of spatial correlation in the epidemic spread, human mobility, and transmissibility of different virus variants, the models can result in short-term prediction of the COVID-19 symptom onset risk at different scales, from intra-city level to different parts of a country. The models are then used to optimize and evaluate the effectiveness of various anti-epidemic measures, including mobility restriction, social distancing, vaccine allocation, and targeted strict epidemic control in epicenters. Studies are made in multiple countries and cities around the world to pinpoint the cost-effective anti-epidemic measures in corresponding geographic areas and stages of the pandemic.

Prof. Wenzhong Shi is the Chair Professor and Director of Otto Poon Charitable Foundation Smart Cities Research Institute, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He is Academician of International Eurasian Academy of Sciences and Fellow of Academy of Social Sciences (UK). He also serves as President of International Society for Urban Informatics and Editor-in-Chief of International Journal Urban Informatics. Prof Shi has published almost 300 research articles in journals indexed by Web of Science and 20 books. He is among the worldly top 2% cited researchers according to the standardized citation indicators published by Elsevier BV and scholar in Stanford University. His research covers urban informatics for smart cities, geo-informatic science and remote sensing, artificial-intelligence-based object extraction and change detection from satellite imagery, intelligent analytics and quality control for spatial big data, and mobile mapping and 3-D modelling based on LiDAR and remote sensing imagery. He received Distinguished Scholar Prize by CPGIS, Gold Medal in Geneva Invention Expo, and Smart 50 Awards (2021); Founder Award, International Spatial Accuracy Research Association (2020); Wang Zhizhuo Award, the International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (2012); and State Natural Science Award, the State Council, China (2007).

Prof. Dr. Bin Jiang

Division of GIScience,
Faculty of Engineering and Sustainable Development,
University of Gävle, Gävle, Sweden
Email: bin.jiang@hig.se

Title: "A New Kind of GeoInformatics Built on Living Structure and on the Third View of Space"

The third view of space states that space is neither lifeless nor neutral, but a living structure capable of being more living or less living, which was formulated by Christopher Alexander under the organismic world view that was first conceived by the British philosopher Alfred Whitehead (1861–1947). The living structure is defined as a physical and mathematical structure or simply characterized by the recurring notion (or inherent hierarchy) of far more small substructures than large ones. The more substructures the more living or more beautiful structurally, the higher hierarchy of the substructures the more living or more beautiful structurally. This paper seeks to lay out a new kind of GeoInformatics on the notion of living structure and on the third view of space. The new GeoInformatics aims not only to better understand geographic forms and processes but also – maybe more importantly – to make geographic space or the Earth’s surface living or more living. We introduce two fundamental laws of living structure: Tobler’s law on spatial dependence or homogeneity and scaling law on spatial interdependence or heterogeneity. We further argue that these two laws favor statistics over exactitude, because the statistics tends to make a structure more living than the exactitude. We present the concept of living structure through some working examples and make it clear how a living structure differs from a non-living structure. In order to make a structure or space living or more living, we introduce two design principles – differentiation and adaptation – using two paintings and two city plans as working examples. The new GeoInformatics is a science of living structure, dealing with a wide range of scales, from the smallest scale of ornaments on walls to the scale of the entire Earth’s surface.

 Prof. Bin Jiang is currently Professor of GeoInformatics at the University of Gävle, Sweden. His research interests center on geospatial analysis and modeling, for example, topological analysis and scaling hierarchy applied to buildings, streets, and cities, or geospatial big data in general. Over the past years, he has developed a series of novel concepts, methods, and tools, which are all complexity science oriented, such as natural cities, natural streets, head/tail breaks, ht-index, and scaling law, not only for better understanding city structure and dynamics, but also for effectively transforming cities and communities to become living or more living. He formulated three fundamental issues of urban science about a city: how it looks, how it works, and what it ought to be. In other words, urban science should study not only how cities are, but also – probably more importantly – what cities ought to be, that is, urban planning and design towards a sustainable society. Inspired by the great architect Christopher Alexander, he developed a mathematical model of beauty – or beautimeter – which helps address not only why a city is beautiful, but also how beautiful the city is. He is the primary developer of the software tool Axwoman for topological analysis of very large street networks. He is the founding chair of the International Cartographic Association (ICA) Commission on Geospatial Analysis and Modeling, and co-founding chair of ICA Working Group on Digital Transformation. He used to be Associate Editor of international journal Computer, Environment and Urban Systems (2009–2014), and is currently Associate Editor of some international journals such as Cartographica, and Computational Urban Science.

Prof. Dr. Giles Foody

Nottingham University,UK,

School of Geography, University of Nottingham

Email:Giles.foody@nottingham.ac.uk

Title: "Some challenges to the realization of the full potential of geospatial technologies for smart life"

Geospatial technologies such as global positioning, Earth observation and geographical information systems together with advances in data analysis, notably by artificial intelligence, are central to many developments in smart life. These technologies have already transformed lives and are often taken for granted in a large and diverse set of sectors such as health, safety, transport, retail, and tourism as well as everyday activities such as navigating a journey with a satnav. Further advances are likely in the near future. However, there are a variety of concerns with some challenges evident. Here, a focus will be on some challenges associated with the properties of the geographic data, notably issues of data quantity and quality as well as fundamental concerns such as those connected to issues of ethics and privacy. For example, the considerable potential of machine learning to extract useful information from Earth observation data is often strongly influenced by the quantity and quality of reference data and the latter may be of variable nature as originating from diverse sources ranging from authoritative agencies to members of the general public (e.g. volunteered geographic information). Recognition of the concerns can help design ways to mitigate problems and help achieve the full potential of geospatial technologies for smart life.

Prof. Giles Foody is Professor of Geographical Information Science at the University of Nottingham, UK. He gained BSc and PhD degrees from the University of Sheffield in the 1980s. His core research interests are in environmental remote sensing especially in relation to land cover and its dynamics. Recent work has been undertaken in application domains ranging from ecology to human rights and focused on image analysis methods, thematic mapping at scales from sub-pixel to global and the use of volunteered geographic information. He is a Fellow of the IEEE and a Member of Academia Europaea.

Prof. Dr. Christophe Claramunt

Research Chair
Naval Academy Research Institute & Arts et Métiers Institute of Technology
Lanveoc-Poulmic, BP 600, 29240 Brest, France,

https://christophe.claramunt.free.fr

Email: christophe.claramunt@gmail.com

Title: "Geographical and cyberspace data for extracting mobility patterns"

The advent of information and communication technology, the Internet of Things and social medias have led our society toward a digital era that offer new opportunities for the understanding of urban and regional systems. The proliferation of personal computers, smartphones, intelligent autonomous sensors, and pervasive network interactions with individuals offer novel avenues for the understanding of human activities that happen in space and time. This seminar will introduce a series of methodological and practical advances and contributions of this digital revolution to the understanding of mobility patterns in urban and regional environments.

Prof. Christophe Claramunt is a professor of computer science at the Naval Academy Research Institute in France. His research focuses on theoretical and pluri-disciplinary aspects of Geographical Information Science and their applications to the urban, maritime, and environmental domains. Over the last 30 years, he has been particularly interested in the integration of time within GIS and the search for alternative formal and conceptual models of space and time. He currently serves as an Associate Editor for the International Journal of Geographical Information Science.

Prof. Dr. Mei-Po Kwan

Choh-Ming Li Professor of Geography and Resource Management

Director, Institute of Space and Earth Information Science

The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Email: mpk654@gmail.com

Title: "Big Data and Geospatial Technologies for Smart Cities Research"

The rapid development and widespread use of advanced geospatial technologies such as GPS, remote sensing, mobile sensing, and location-aware devices in recent years have greatly facilitated the acquisition of enormous amounts of high-resolution space-time data. To build smart and healthy cities, we need to integrate these multi-source geospatial big data acquired by earth observation technologies and mobile sensing technologies to provide more accurate assessments of individual exposures to environmental or social risk factors, and to develop planning policies to improve health for all. We also need to develop innovative geospatial big data analytical methods to provide solutions for forming effective and targeted intervention measures in respond to the COVID-19 pandemic. In this presentation, I will discuss how these new developments can provide new insights into the relationships between people’s mobility, health behaviors, and the complex spatiotemporal dynamics of environmental influences.

 Prof. Kwan Mei-Po is Director of the Institute of Space and Earth Information Science and Choh-Ming Li Professor of Geography and Resource Management of The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Prof. Kwan is a Fellow of the United Kingdom Academy of Social Sciences, Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and American Association of Geographers and a Guggenheim Fellow. She was awarded many Outstanding Academic Achievement Awards by the American Association of Geographers, including the Distinguished Scholarship Honors, the Wilbanks Prize for Transformational Research in Geography, the Stanley Brunn Award for Creativity in Geography, the Edward L. Ullman Award for Outstanding Contributions to Transportation Geography, and the Melinda Meade Award for Outstanding Contributions to Health and Medical Research. She also received the U.S. University Consortium for Geographic Information Science (UCGIS) Research Award. She was named to the 2019 and 2021 Highly Cited researchers list compiled by Clarivate. Prof. Kwan has received over US$61 million funding support as PI or co-PI and has delivered over 350 keynote addresses and invited lectures and presentations in more than 20 countries. Her recent projects examine the health impacts of individual environmental exposure (e.g., noise, air pollution, green space), urban and mobility issues, the space-time dynamics of the COVID-19 pandemic and the protection of geoprivacy via the development of a Geospatial Virtual Data Enclave (GVDE).

More information can be found at: http://www.meipokwan.org

Prof. Dr. Bryan C. Pijanowski

Purdue University

Department of Forestry and Natural Resources, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana USA

Email: bpijanow@purdue.edu

 Title: "Toward a Multi-scale, Multi-sensor Biodiversity Framework for Plants, Animals and Human Disturbance"

 A multi-scale (space, time, disturbance), multi-sensor (in situ passive acoustic, airborne, and space-based) platform is being used to create a model of plant and animal biodiversity that can be used for natural resource management in forested and grassland ecosystems. The platform includes sensors that characterize species richness, habitat condition (e.g., water stress) and three-dimensional structural complexity of habitat. A summary of the multi-sensor fusion biodiversity models will be described along with the steps necessary for processing animal diversity using arrays of passive acoustic recorder sensors deployed for peak animal breeding periods and for long-term seasonal plant phenologies and soundscape phonologies. Applications for the biodiversity framework, which focusses on climate change and habitat alteration, will also be presented along with a summary of a relatively new field that is remote sensing based called soundscape ecology.

Prof. Bryan C. Pijanowski is Professor and University Faculty Scholar in the Department of Forestry and Natural Resources at Purdue University. He received his PhD from Michigan State University in animal ecology. Bryan is also the Director of the Center for Global Soundscapes, a transdisciplinary center that coordinates soundscape ecology work with other universities, NGOs and national parks. He has published over 170 peer-reviewed articles and is in the most highly cited (top 2%) of researchers in the world. His expertise is in the area of landscape and soundscape ecology. He uses space-based, air-based, and in situ-based spectral, light, and acoustic-derived remote sensing data to develop plant and animal biodiversity models that are interfaced to land change models. Bryan is currently on a research mission to Record the Earth, which involves conducting at least one study in each of the planet’s major ecosystems. He has worked in 28 of the Earth’s ecosystems and has four more to go. He also serves on several editorial boards.

 Prof. Dr. Orhan ALTAN

From Huma Needs to SDGs…Role of Geosciences

Orhan ALTAN

ISTANBUL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY

Honorary Member and Past President of ISPRS

  The COVID-19 (coronavirus) disease has affected over 100 countries in a matter of weeks. The way humans live and work on planet Earth has changed profoundly over the last years. Many lives and livelihoods have been lost. Ways of working, shopping, and social interactions are all vastly different for most of us. We do not know when the current crisis will end, or how far we will “return” to the way things were before the pandemic. The world is experiencing one of the most transformative moments of the last 100 years. The social, economic, and political influences of the COVID-19 crisis have already been hugely momentous, we do not utterly understand it. Looking ahead, we have inevitably had to make important public health, economic, governance, and ecological decisions with less information than usual and to reverse recently adopted policies, which can lead to an era of disruptive transformations to sustainability. During these historic times, we must understand the hidden reality of the earth system and attempt to transform our needs so that we all have a sustained future on our planet.

Prof. Dr. Orhan ALTAN

1965 – 1970 Studied at the Faculty of Civil Engineering at Istanbul Technical University and graduation with Dipl.- Ing. in Civil Engineering

1972-1973 Research at ETH-Zurich Institute of Geodesy and Photogrammetry

1977-1979 6 months spent on research at the Institute of Applications of Geodesy to Civil Engineering at the Stuttgart University, sponsored by TÜBITAK, followed by a period of one and half years sponsored by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.

1990-2018 Worked as “Guest Professor” in Stuttgart, Berlin, Munich Technical Universities (Germany), ETH-Zurich (Switzerland) and Beijing and Wuhan University (China).

Corresponding member of the German Geodetic Commission at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and co-chair of the Advisory Board for Geodesy. Member of the International Astronautical Academy.

Honorary Member of the Science Academy (Bilim Akademisi) and Honorary Fellow of the Indian Remote Sensing Society.

Published more than 220 scientific papers in scientific journals and conferences, and editor or co-editor of more than 20 international books.

Positions held 

• 1988- 2013 University Professor; And several times Head of Department of Geodesy and
• Photogrammetry
• 1994-1997 Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Civil Engineering for 2 periods
• 2000-2006 CIPA “International Committee of Architectural Photogrammetry” Executive
• Board Member
• 2000-2004 ISPRS Congress Director/Organizer of the 2004 Congress in Istanbul.
• 2004-2008 Secretary General of ISPRS
• 2008-2012 President of ISPRS
• 2012-2016 1st Vice President of ISPRS
• 2016- Honorary Member of ISPRS; given to individuals whose efforts in Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing are exceptionally distinguished not more than 10 at any time.

6th May 2013 he is retired and work as Work Package Leader at different EU Projects.

2011-2018 Member of the Executive Board of the International Council for Science (ICSU) and during the period he served as Co-Chair and Chair of the ICSU Finance Committee.

2018 – World Bank Consultant on the improving resilience and resilience impact of national land and geospatial systems.

March 2019 Member of the Expert Group DDE (Deep Digital Earth) Science Program of the International Union of Geological Sciences.

He is elected Chair of the ISC GeoUnions Standing Committee on Disaster Risk Reduction.

Currently, he is giving courses at Master and Ph.D. level at the Beijing University of Civil Engineering and Architecture and Liesmars (Laboratory for Information Engineering in Surveying, Mapping and Remote Sensing) Wuhan University, and different European Universities…

Prof. Dr. Jalal Amini

University of Tehran

School of Surveying and Geospatial Engineering

Email: jamini@ut.ac.ir

 Title: "Ground-Based SAR Imaging Sensor for 3-D displacement measurement of civil structures in Radar Remote Sensing"

 This talk first presents the investigation of the Frequency Modulation Continuous Wave Ground Based SAR (FMCW-GBSAR) sensor for multi-target displacement measurement in civil structures like bridges. Second analyses the principle of three-dimensional (3-D) displacement measurement of civil structures and also, the requirements of high-accuracy displacement and multi-target identification for the measuring sensors are discussed. And third presents the fundamental measuring principle of FMCW GB-SAR with rigorous mathematical formulas, and finally the multiple-target displacement measurement is analyzed and simulated with real environment.

Prof. Jalal Amini is Professor and University of Tehran in the School of Surveying and Geospatial Engineering.